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- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
- When war has knocked on one’s front door that many times, why should the minuscule daily ills matter?
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, 2019
- Everything really is going to be Okay. That isn’t a lie. Sometimes things don’t feel like they’re going to be anything except for Not Okay. Sometimes days feel long—so much longer than days used to feel. The Very Long Days end up passing, and eventually Days That Didn’t Feel Long Enough To Be A Day At All end up passing too.
- Elyse Myers, That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, 2025
- Sometimes, you don’t have to defeat the bad guy. You just have to make them irrelevant. Which was really the worst punishment for men of ambition.
- Susan Kaye Quinn, Yet You Cry When It Hurts, 2023
- The known unknowns did not get you—it was the unknown unknowns that parachuted in from the 5th dimension and blindsided you every time.
- Susan Kaye Quinn, Of Kindness and Kilowatts, 2021
- Sometimes we lose things, and it feels like the entire world is gone. Swallowed up whole by the emptiness left behind. But it’s not true. As long as you’re still pulling in breath, you still have options. Choices.
- Susan Kaye Quinn, You Knew the Price, 2021
- The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
- Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
- Lisa Alther
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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